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I guess that I am a little lax today as someone else beat me to my usual Tony Snow Comedy press briefing, but it was worth reading this below.
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Snow on the 18-day gap
By kos Daily Kos
on attorney scandal
Atrios watches TV:
Tells the reporter to ask Justice, and only provides:
I've been led to believe that there's a good response for it, and I'm going to let you ask them because they're going to have an answer.
He looked really really uncomfortable.
Anyone remember what Nixon's excuse was for the 18-minute gap?
And also via the Baby Blue Cherub, the Chicago Tribune digs up a juice old Tony Snow column from 1998:
"Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.
"Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.
"One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public's faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold the rule of law.''
Ha ha ha ha! I can't wait to see Snow try and explain that one away.
Update: From the comments, the answer to my question about Nixon's excuse:
Nixon's new Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. suggested the possibility that "some sinister force" had erased portions of the subpoenaed tape. President Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods was eventually blamed as having caused the erasure supposedly after she had been asked to prepare a summary of taped conversations for the President.
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